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NYNPA niE-News
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Volume 8, Number 4 Thursday, March 31, 2016
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CIVICS EDUCATION CORNER
iCivics upgraded their Win the White House 2016 game has already gained traction as a hit in classrooms this eleciton season. Play today!
Challenging your students, your neighbors, friends and even yourself to see how many electoral votes you can get when playing Win the White House 2016 with their Get Your Game On: Can you beat 270? campaign.
Play the game and share your score or game certificate on Twitter using #EducateToParticipate
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FAMILY ENGAGEMENT IN EDUCATION
- TIP OF THE MONTH -
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Support Homework Expectations  Homework reinforces and extends classroom learning and helps kids practice important study skills. It also helps them develop a sense of responsibility and a work ethic that will benefit them beyond the classroom.
In addition to making sure your child knows that you see homework as a priority, you can help by creating an effective study environment. Any well-lit, comfortable, and quiet workspace with the necessary supplies will do. Avoiding distractions (like a TV in the background) and setting up a start and end time can also help.
A good rule of thumb for an effective homework and/or study period is roughly 10 minutes per elementary grade level. Fourth-graders, for example, should expect to have about 40 minutes of homework or studying each school night. If you find that it's often taking significantly longer than this guideline, talk with your child's teacher.
While your child does homework, be available to interpret assignment instructions, offer guidance, answer questions, and review the completed work. But resist the urge to provide the correct answers or complete the assignments yourself. Learning from mistakes is part of the process and you don't want to take this away from your child.
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| Need or Want Training? | | |
Whether it's training for the newspaper staff to raise money for your program or help working with local teachers on your NIE Program or training for local teachers to use your NIE program, News Media Literacy (from editorial cartoons to close reading) - Contact Mary Miller for FREE training.
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 | Celebrating Earth Day (April 22)
Free 4 col x 10" feature for April |
 The NYNPA Newspaper In Education Program is offering all member newspapers a series of 12 stand- alone, 4 column x 10", monthly features to help you raise money and awareness for your local NIE efforts.
This month's feature highlights Earth Day.
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22. Events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
Contact Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com or call 518-449-1667 x 701 for a high resolution copy of this feature.
May's feature spotlights National Teacher's Appreciation Day.
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| It's not too late to participate in the 11th Annual Statewide Serial Story When New York Was New
All resources are FREE to NYNPA member newspapers because of continued support from NYSUT and NY Newspapers Foundation. |
Author Mike Peterson and Illustrator, Christopher Baldwin are again teaming up to create a brand new non-fiction serial for NYNPA members to share with teachers and students around the state. The 8-chapter story covers the native populations and the intersection of the early European exploration and settlements in the new world through the events that formally formed our boundaries. The story, illustrations, audio podcasts of each chapter, teachers' guide, and student contest are all included at no charge to member newspapers who are welcome to share this content in-print or online. The story can run anytime between now and end of the school year in June. PLEASE NOTE: The student quiz/essay contest has up to 6 regional winners at $100 prize each and a matching cash award for the winning students' school libraries. Deadline to enter is Friday, May 13. All prizes are supplied by NYNPA NIE Program through grant funding by NYSUT.
For more information go to
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Free Teaching Resources for April
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Here is a list of NIE and other resources for kids, teachers or parents can use to enhance their students' education.
 From Scholastic -
Celebrate National Poetry Month with activity ideas including Writing With Jack Prelutsky:
Listen to the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate lead students through writing and publishing their own original poem and Poem in Your Pocket Day: Encourage students to copy down their favorite verse or write a new poem of their own and keep it in their pockets to share with friends.
April Fools' Day was April 1. It is often celebrated with harmless pranks and foolish happenings. In real life, many of us feel foolish on occasion about something we may have said or done without thinking.
The pages of the newspaper often contain news of people who have been foolish in some way. Some people in the news may have not thought before they acted; others may have gotten caught doing something they should not have done, leaving them feeling foolish.
Create an April Fools' Day Hall of Shame by selecting photos or names of people in the newspaper who have said or done something foolish. These people may be famous people or they may not be so well known. You may even want to find comic strip characters who have done or said somthing foolish.
Clip from the newspaper one or two examples of foolish people and mount the names or faces on a sheet of construction paper. Explain the following items.
1. WHO the person is
2. WHAT the person said or did
3. WHEN this person said or did it
4. WHY you think this person deserves a place in the Hall of Shame
Source: A Plan For All Seasons: Using newspapers in grades 3-8 to make the most of holidays and seasonal events. Written by Ann West, NIE Consultant and distributed by the NIE Institute.
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Current word lists and puzzles from MyVocabulary.com:
All MyVocabulary.com content is printable for NIE programs without a charge. Please honor trademarks and copyright, giving MyVocabulary.com attribution.
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| Remember...we're always looking for new young writers for YVNY!
|  The site is intended for kids, 13 years old and younger, who are interested in writing and journalism. It's free to join but requires parental permission. Contact Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com or click here to visit the website for more information. |
"NYNPA niE-News" is an electronic newsletter of the New York News Publishers Association, NIE Program. It is sent to provide you with news of your colleagues, money-saving and money-generating ideas, and educational trends, all in one place - in a format you can quickly scroll through. Feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone you think would benefit from it. If you have an item you'd like to share - a success story, a warning so others don't make the same mistake, or a something you'd like advice on, simply hit the "reply" button on your e-mail service. Remember, you can always send news by emailing Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com. |
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For more NYNPA NIE news and materials be sure to visit our website at www.nynpa.com.
Sincerely,
Mary Miller
Education Services Director New York News Publishers Association
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